The keen ones will look for ways to do “ the ministry ‘ if they cannot call or use a trolley ant telephone is expensive. I bet he counted his time writing and posting it.
BluesBrother
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Just got a letter from a local JW
by wozza ina local brother has called on me 3 times in the last few months and has just sent me a letter ,.
in the previous calls we kept it simple : i have'nt been to meetings for years ,don't believe in god now ,etc.
touched on how i was appalled at how the org handles child molestation and they were quick to say that there have been problems but the governing body has it handled now blah blah.
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The virus and how it's affected life
by days of future passed insince i've never lived in time with dire events, this virus and it's effects, has taken me by surprise.
not that i should be surprised by how people responded, but until you experience it first hand, you just don't get the scope of it all.. all the hoarding.
i've always taken things in a more rational way.
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BluesBrother
Around here , U K, everything except essentials are shut down. People are told firmly to stay at home. Therefore traffic is light, busses are empty. You must queue outside a supermarket 2 metres apart , some items are still short.
For me, there is not a lot of change, I was at home anyway. I just miss the freedom to go downtown for a coffee.
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3 Letters Arrived--English and Spanish! (As of 2020-04-08)
by Atlantis inenglish--2020-04-08--addendum to the march 24, letter.. https://docdro.id/v8savbuspanish--2020-04-08--addendum to the march 24, letterhttps://docdro.id/hxrhew6spanish--zoom instructionshttps://docdro.id/mmmurmdpetra!https://docdro.id/ebxf7nz
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BluesBrother
As Petra pointed out the first , and last , destination for your donation is to be the JW website...... however , the last point of call for material help is to be themselves!
They would have the old sisters calling on food banks for the needy before helping their own......
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2020--04--07 Inbox Disaster relief Committee--Zone 3!
by Atlantis in2020-04-07 inbox disaster relief committee zone 3.. https://docdro.id/k2wq1zj.
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petra!.
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BluesBrother
Thanks Petra
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Covid 19, is this the WT new push to bring back ex JW's before the end of the system?
by William Penwell innot sure if this was covered as i could not find anything on it but talking to my son he tells me one of the gb had a talk telling them this is a sign of the last days.
have the jw's being pressured into talking to relatives and friends to bring them back into the fold before the end of the system blah blah blah?
the reason why i ask is my son was saying his mother has being on his case the last few weeks and then two days ago i got a telephone message from my sister, that hasn't spoke to me in 4 years, asking how i am doing.
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BluesBrother
How are they supposed to seek us out? Government rules are that we shouldn't not visit or receive visitors.
Nobody has reached out to me in all the years I have lived here, they know where I am.
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How Do You Get Most Of Your News?
by minimus ini read a lot on online.
i regularly read fox news, the drudge report the new york post and local newspapers and local newscasts.
where do you get most of your news from?.
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BluesBrother
Over here I turn to ghe BBC first, sometimes Sky and I like to see some of the foreign news available on t v .
Such as Al Jazeera, France 24 or Euronews. On the net I check google news and Apple News, but I am careful as to their sources. An article is only ss good as the paper that printed it.
No one news source can be relied on to give a totally unbiased, even coverage of everything you need to know , so I keep an eye on multimedia news sources
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My D.I.L.was informed by her mother ,her father died this morning.
by smiddy3 inmy lovely d.i.l.
heard of her fathers passing this morning.both her parents and siblings have shunned her for over 22 years.. about 1 week ago her mother notified her by e-mail that her father had cancer and was not expected to live much longer.of course they had known for a long time that he had terminal cancer.. last week my d.i.l.
did ring her father and spoke with him.. the only other time they contacted my d.i.l.
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I can never get the shunning of people who have not actually been d/f'd . The Witnesses I know ard reluctant to shun and only do so if they are given no option by their faith. Even then, " necessary family business" should over ride that rule.
Her mother must be a real hard-ass super dub!
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Could anybody in the world non JW`s zoom in to the Memorial ?
by smiddy3 inwhy i ask this is because the night before the memorial we had a phone call from a longtime friend who obviously is still indoctrinated ,to encourage us to log onto jw.org and view the proceedings ?.
she made a big deal about how this has never happened before and that even non jw`s could watch it .. she was going to ring us up on the night to help us log in if we had any problems or whatever .. this friend is a bit eccentric to say the least and speaks against the elders at times ,sometimes i even wondered whether she was df or not ?
so this ph.call surprised me somewhat ,and the wife`s attitude is she`s happy just let her be and don`t rock the boat ,she is about our age so just let her be ,we have had a lot of history with her and she still talks to us despite what the religion says.. but when the memorial was about to start no phone call and we haven`t heard from her since ?
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BluesBrother
Yes , each congregation meeting has its own unique Zoom log in code . I presume this the same for all Zoom users so discussions are private , as they can be on he net.
The talk on the website was intended as failsafe if anybody could not Zoom. Yesterday it was accessible from the home page, no log in required. I have not looked today
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Memorial Talk: 2 points for JW's to listen out for - and to consider.
by The Fall Guy inmemorial talk from australia - .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodmemorialtalk2020/pub-mo-tk20r_16_video.
at 23 minutes 00 seconds, the speaker says who are god's sons/christ's brothers.. according to the bible, he's got it wrong:.
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BluesBrother
Well, we zoomed in to the local congregation. I sat through it respectfully, it meant a lot to my wife..
The speaker did not highlight so much Jesus and what he did, as much as speaking of the the dual destinies and showing Watchtower pics of a paradise earth .. .There was a lot about not taking the emblems ......
No, we did not have wine and unleavened bread to hand.....
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Plasma Based treatment for Covid 19 ?
by BluesBrother inhttps://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-06/covid19-blood-antibodies-recovered-show-promise.
i have heard of this , transfusing plasma from recovered covid 19 patients to give the recipients the antibodies to fight it off .
great !
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BluesBrother
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-06/covid19-blood-antibodies-recovered-show-promise
I have heard of this , transfusing plasma from recovered Covid 19 patients to give the recipients the antibodies to fight it off .
Great ! It seems except that plasma is one of the big four blood fractions that are forbidden to.JW’s
Is this going to cause problems for them if the treatment is universally accepted?
Of course if a way is found to just administer a “serum” containing the antibodies, all well and good... subject to their conscience.